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President's Message
Kelly Binyon
President's Report No 15
Hello Everyone
Well our “Crazy Hat Night” to support Lift the Lid on Mental Health was a great success. It was great to have Catherine Eagleson as our guest speaker-who is also the District Chair of Australian Rotary Health (further details in Bulletin).
October is Mental Health Month and it is important to support all organisations in spreading the word that it is ok not to be ok! Please take note of the RSL’s Event that may be of interest to family & friends (details below).
This week I have also had my Youth Exchange hat on hosting Ting at our place. I’ll admit that I’m a bit out of practice and forgot about school lunches😬 but all good now!!
We had a lovely visit to Melbourne on Saturday followed by a trip to The Great Ocean Road Chocolate Factory & drive
down the GOR to Lorne today. Members please remember to invite or include Ting in activities that you may be attending (where appropriate) so she gets to experience “Aussie” life🇦🇺
Tomorrow night is now a Club Assembly so please come along and we’ll touch base on our areas of service over a lovely meal & great company 🤗🤗
Our Club continued to promote and fund-raise for the valuable "Lift the Lid" Mental Health Research Program for Australian Rotary Health (ARH) at last Mondays meeting.
Members and guests embraced the spirit of the event turning out in their craziest hats to raise funds for the cause.
Australian Rotary Health is one of the largest independent funders of mental health research within Australia.
We were also able to celebrate District Chair for ARH, Catherine Eagleson's Birthday with her and partner Alex. Catherine shared with us all her own personal journey with metal health and was later presented with a $1,000 Cheque to go to the District Program.
These funds were the proceeds from the Torquay Rotary Club's fundraising efforts at Bunnings across the weekend which included a BBQ and Cake Stall.
In accordance with RI Bylaws section 11.020., the Nominating Committee for RI Director in Zone 8 recently certified that it selected Rotarian Jessie H. Harman, a member of the Rotary Club of Wendouree Breakfast, as a RI director in 2021–23. Rotarian Harman has stated that she is willing and able to serve as director, if elected.
RI President Maloney will declare Rotarian Harman as director-nominee from your zone on 1 December 2019 unless another qualified Rotarian has been duly proposed as a challenging candidate before 1 December. Any club in your zone at its regular meeting may adopt a resolution proposing a challenging candidate for RI director, provided that the challenger was among the candidates previously considered by the Nominating Committee.
Whilst it is probably a little premature to offer congratulations to Jessie right now, it would be unlikely that there will be a challenge to her nomination before 1st December.
It is fitting, at this time, therefore to recognise the great achievement of her nomination.
You will find some interesting stories in DG Rosanne's Newsletter this month
Particularly there is a link to the e-Book that that was presented to World RI President Mark Maloney during his recent visit to our District.
This is an album includes one page from every Club in District 9780 showcasing Club Projects and Activities. Unfortunately the link in the Newsletter doesn't appear to work so please click on the "Rotarians in Action" image below to go to the e-book
To read DG Rosanne Kava's latest DistrictNewsletter please Click on the banner below
Gaynor and Rudi have just returned from South Africa to visit family and see the sights:-
We were spoiled in first 2 days while staying at the “Shepherd’s Tree Game Resort”.
4 hour game drives in the early morning and late evenings allowed me to photograph the Big 5 African animals - lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant & Cape buffalo.
An expert in the field took us to 2 historic Zulu battlefields. The first is “Isandlwana” (pic 1), where 1300 British soldiers were killed in action in 1879, after poor decisions by their commander. That day the Zulu’s continued on to the second battlefield known as “Rorke’s Drift” (pic 2) where the garrison was able to hold out against relentless Zulu attacks.
If you do require to swap a date for any reason you will now need to find someone to do this with yourself. I would suggest that you send the request to Greg who has offered to advertise on a BBQ Roster Trading Post in the bulletin
You are invited to contribute to a project to support Purple House, an organisation that provides dialysis services to remote indigenous people in Central Australia.
Purple House is an innovative Indigenous-owned and run health service operating from its base in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Now operating 16 remote clinics and a mobile dialysis unit called the Purple Truck, Purple House is getting patients back home so that families and culture can remain strong.
DG Rosanne Kava has asked us all to provide any of the following items to our Assistant Governor, Judy Beasley, who will pass them on to Purple House CEO Sarah Brown for delivery to clients in remote communities
Soaps, shampoos, conditioner, body lotion and toiletries including combs, brushes, toothpaste and tooth brushes (no sanitary items as they are sourced elsewhere).
Special recognition will be given to the Club that provides the top contribution.
Think about volunteering to assist Purple House if you are travelling in central Australia, eg to assist in building a new Purple House in Coober Pedy, or as a nurse on the Purple Bus or one of the Purple Houses. Click the image for more details or CLICK HERE to contact Purple House or phone 08 8953 6444.
Please give your donated items to Lesley Shedden or Mike Reed at any of our Monday meetings.
We are now fully operational with our new system for registering for our weekly dinner meetings. Called Whoozin, this program is used by other local Rotary Clubs with great success.
To make it easy for everyone I have prepared a Whoozin User Manual which is stored on Clubrunner under "Club Documents" that you will be able to print off if you wish.
In Summary the way it will work is:-
You will receive an initial email invitation each Monday for the following week's meeting.
You can immediately accept or decline, leave until later.
You will receive a reminder email on the Friday Prior
You will have until Midnight Sunday to register your RSVP and can change your decision right up until the closing time.
You can register up to 5 guests
You can specify any Special Dietary requirements
Please Note that if you do not register your intentions you will be charged for the dinner fee.
If you have any problems please free to contact myself Greg Plumridge 0418521321 or Michael Reed 0418524315 for details on how to work the program.
If you cannot meet one of your assigned duties, Please contact Maggie Isom ( 0412713102 ) to advise.
The duty team should arrive no later than 6:00 p.m. Besides the below duties, the assigned team is responsible for Room Setup, Greeting Members and Guests, and Room Tidy at the end of our meeting - see checklist in storeroom or click here .
Notifying someone about changes to your meeting attendance is your responsibility!
Our meetings have catered dinners, so if you are unable to attend a meeting, or if your partner is unable
to attend a designated Partner's Night, YOU MUST ADVISE us of your or your partner’s absence.
This also applies if you are attending the meeting but not dining.
How to Book in for our Dinner Meeting?
For Members, Partners and guests of Members
you will receive email invitations to each meeting via Whoozin.
It will be your responsibility to RSVP using Whoozin by Midnight on the day prior to the meeting.
The only exception to this will be if you are expecting to be out of internet connectivity for an extended period.
In this instance you can notify Richard Mierzejewski at LET Surfcoast on03-5261 2777 by 4.00pm on the Saturday prior to the Monday Meeting.
Please Note there is NO Answering Service on this number.
Remember if you are bringing guests or your partner (to a non-partner night) you need to RSVP for the extra number of person/s who will be attending.
If no RSVP is registered as per the above process, the absentee member will be issued with an invoice to pay the Club the usual dinner fee of $25 for your non-attendance, and/or that of your partner if it is an official Partner's Night.
For Visitors to the Club
Any Visitors not being registered as a guest of a Member must call Richard Mierzejewski at LET Surfcoast on03-5261 2777 to Book in. RSVP's must be made no later than 4.00PM on the Saturday prior to the Meeting
Please Note there is NO Answering Service on this number.